In spite o-f the end of the shipping! strike, Australia is not yet free from its results. Letters by -the latest mail state that sugar is still unprocurable there, and the confectioners' and pastrycooks' shops are devoid of the iced attraction- which are their main features. The writer, a returned soldier, who spent some time convalescent near London, states that Sydney is almost reminiscent oi the "big smoke" in the rationing days. The letter concludes: "If there were only the possibility of an air attack at any time, Harry Lauder ; might well say that Sydney was 'just like bein' at Hame?"
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 222, 18 September 1919, Page 9
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